The BOV National League resumes this evening with champions Neptunes Emirates looking to move three points clear at the top of Group A if they beat Sirens Ritter Sport as San Ġiljan Giuseppe’s look favourites to bag their second win in Group B when they face Marsascala meat.com.

Neptunes have already won both of their matches in con-vincing style but Sirens will be all out to make up for last week’s dis-appointing defeat to 3CX Exiles with a strong showing to get their campaign going.

Against the outfit from Sliema, Sirens, who were making their first appearance in the competition, paid the price for a poor showing in the second session that left them chasing their opponents for the rest of the match.

In the end, Sirens found them-selves at the wrong end of a 10-5 defeat.

No doubt, Serbian coach Pre-drag Zimonjic will be urging his Sirens players to show more consistency but it would be difficult to end Neptunes’ perfect run in the competition.

In fact, the Reds come into this match in fine spirits after making it two wins on the trot when they eased past Valletta Dhalia 20-8 in their last outing.

Sergei Markoch’s team had little trouble in keeping the spirited Citizens at bay with star striker Steve Camilleri and foreigners Tamas Molnar and Vladimir Gojkovic again in un-stoppable mood.

Between them, this trio of players netted 13 goals past the City keeper.

Victory today will put Nep-tunes three points clear of Valletta and further boost their aspirations of topping the sec-tion at the end of the preliminary round.

San Ġiljan, who opened their commitments in the National League with a commanding 26-8 win over Gozitan team Otters, should find little difficulty in brushing aside Marsascala’s challenge in today’s opening match in programme.

The southerners crashed to a 23-7 defeat to Sliema McDonald’s in their only match so far.

Playing today
(National Pool, Tal-Qroqq)
6.45 p.m. San Ġiljan vs Marsa-scala; 8 p.m. Sirens vs Neptunes.

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